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Grant’s Tomb 101: ‘It is not legal to use it without the permission of the accused and that we were not able to get.’ ‘So you used it anyway?’ He looked at me wearily. ‘This is not the Beaver Patrol’.at beaver patrol, n.2
Grant’s Tomb 101: ‘It is not legal to use it without the permission of the accused and that we were not able to get.’ ‘So you used it anyway?’ He looked at me wearily. ‘This is not the Beaver Patrol’. Other Body in Grant's Tomb 11: ‘The municipal government is run by crooks. [...] Do they think one man is going to come in cold and bump it over when the people who live here [...] can't ’.at bump over (v.) under bump, v.1
Grant’s Tomb 201: Dr. Peachy [...] dropped a coin into the blind man’s cup. It sounded like half a check.at check, n.1
Grant’s Tomb 11: ‘What chiefly put the chill on the jury was that an important witness vanished’.at put the chill on (v.) under chill, n.
Grant’s Tomb 9: ‘Do the Palms really pay their cowboys two hundred bucks a week?’.at cowboy, n.
Grant’s Tomb 39: ‘[W]ho it is who is hauling Hack Harper away to be dried out’.at dry out, v.
Grant’s Tomb 196: The girl spent the night sleeping comfortably in a cell at the Women’s Detention Bureau, surrounded by [...] fancy ladies.at fancy woman, n.
Grant’s Tomb 7: ‘Now [...] give me a six hundred word fill-in on what’s with you these last eleven years’.at fill-in, n.
Grant’s Tomb 78: I shook my head and fired up a Camel.at fire up, v.
Other Body in Grant's Tomb 12: ‘And him a real gone guy?’ ‘Utterly. He’s technically a fugitive from justice’.at gone guy (n.) under gone, adj.1
Grant’s Tomb 187: ‘[W]hat’ll it be? Waffles and sausage? Ham and? Or just a big pot of coffee?’.at ham and (n.) under ham, n.1
Grant’s Tomb 238: ‘I should think Hack Harper would have hauled his freight then, and to hell with whatever transactions he had outstanding’.at haul freight (v.) under haul, v.
Other Body in Grant's Tomb 131: I wrote a couple of takes [...] hinting that his spectacular trip to the gutter was merely hippodrome to cover a painstaking investigation into the secret racket.at hippodrome, n.
Grant’s Tomb 15: ‘Last few times he got himself bounced by setting fire to the wastebaskets of managing editors [...] Managing editors can’t stand that sort of thing [...] It jangles them’.at jangle, v.
Grant’s Tomb 212: ‘May I order you anither [sic] martooni? he asked.at martooni, n.
Grant’s Tomb 20: ‘Mousetrapped you, huh?’ ‘Yessir, brother. [...] He put temptation in my path, brother, temptation with honey-colored hair and the biggest pair of... ’.at mousetrap, v.
Grant’s Tomb 115: I handed him [i.e. a cab-driver] a two pound note.at pound note, n.1
Grant’s Tomb 19: ‘Everything’s out of sight these days.’ [sic] I murmured.at out of sight, adj.
Other Body in Grant's Tomb 98: She appeared to be on the other side of thirty-five and [...] put on too much weight. But [...] she had probably been quite a production, say, fifteen years earlier.at production, n.
Grant’s Tomb 117: [I] found two plainclothes cops and the hotel richard.at Richard, n.
Grant’s Tomb 15: ‘[B]efore he began to hit the sauce, this guy was a damn good reporter’.at hit the sauce (v.) under sauce, n.1
Grant’s Tomb 50: ‘He really went on the sauce, then?’ ‘Yes’.at on the sauce under sauce, n.1
Grant’s Tomb 72: ‘We’d like to borrow your trench coat for a moment,’ he said to me. I shucked it and handed it to him.at shuck down (v.) under shuck, v.
Other Body in Grant's Tomb 18: [T]he usual bits of skid-row wreckage [on] their headlong trip to the gutter, the snake and mouse ward, and some bleak municipal burying ground.at snake and mouse ward (n.) under snakes, n.
Grant’s Tomb 176: I do not spook readily. The are some things that frighten me [but] unknown bogeymen are not among them.at spook, v.
Other Body in Grant's Tomb 16: ‘Harper knows everything about this town. Everything. All the cops and all the grafters [...] I think he even knows the names of all the tombstone voters’.at tombstone voter (n.) under tombstone, n.
Other Body in Grant's Tomb 177: I have always had a happy ability to relax and tote up the odds,.at tote, v.2
Grant’s Tomb 77: ‘He died fast. He was pretty well washed up when I got back inside to call an ambulance’.at washed up, adj.1
Grant’s Tomb 26: The Umbrella Man, then, was the one who [...] after whacking a percentage, paid off certain policemen.at whack, v.2
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